Break the ice and warm up your group -- at meetings, parties, studies, or any other youth group event -- with one of these 230 crowd breakers and mixers! - Mixers . . . Make it fun for kids to get acquainted! Lots of creative ways for a group of strangers or classmates to circulate and learn a lot about each other in a little time. - Meeting-Opening Contests . . . All you need usually are two or three brave souls to jump feet first into a crazy competition while the group watches -- like Greasepuff (page 55) or Foot Signing (page 112). - Musical Crowd Breakers . . . Okay, so when your group sings, they remind you of water buffaloes with strep throat. At least they'll enjoy these engaging musical openers. All you usually need is a tape deck or CD player. Quizzes & Word Games . . . At last -- quizzes with absolutely no academic consequences, but loaded with crowd-breaking potential (and lots of laughs, too). If you're a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp -- Crowd Breakers & Mixers is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.

Designed specifically for trainers; speakers and group facilitators; this cookbook contains an imaginative collection of playful games; exercises and activities to help you start any session; meeting; speech or presentation with a burst of energy and fun. --

A collection of more than 200 of the newest, most creative, youth-group-tested crowd breakers and mixers ever imaginedThe newest volume in the best-selling Ideas Library is Crowd Beakers and Mixers 2. These ideas are designed to grab the attention of youth groups and keep them entertained for months. It’s perfect for youth leaders, camp counselors, Sunday school teachers, and recreation directors.This volume includes a variety of large and small group gags, stunts, mixers, contests, word games, quizzes, and more. Features include:• User friendly—perfect to hand off to volunteer or student leaders• Conveniently organized• Multiple uses• Field-tested ideas contributed by youth workers and pastors• Ideal for all ages

Nonprofit leadership is messy Nonprofits leaders are optimistic by nature. They believe with time, energy, smarts, strategy and sheer will, they can change the world. But as staff or board leader, you know nonprofits present unique challenges. Too many cooks, not enough money, an abundance of passion. It’s enough to make you feel overwhelmed and alone. The people you help need you to be successful. But there are so many obstacles: a micromanaging board that doesn’t understand its true role; insufficient fundraising and donors who make unreasonable demands; unclear and inconsistent messaging and marketing; a leader who’s a star in her sector but a difficult boss… And yet, many nonprofits do thrive. Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership will show you how to do just that. Funny, honest, intensely actionable, and based on her decades of experience, this is the book Joan Garry wishes she had when she led GLAAD out of a financial crisis in 1997. Joan will teach you how to: Build a powerhouse board Create an impressive and sustainable fundraising program Become seen as a ‘workplace of choice’ Be a compelling public face of your nonprofit This book will renew your passion for your mission and organization, and help you make a bigger difference in the world.

(Shawnee Press). For any choir, team, or class to work together in a positive manner, the members must be comfortable with each other. Long-time educator Valerie Lippoldt Mack gives us some of her favorite team-building activities in her IceBreakers series. Tried and true, these 60 IceBreaker activities come directly from her classroom and teach life lessons of respect, tolerance, and patience. The book is divided into sections that include communication, energizers, problem-solving, trust-building, goal-setting, and building respect. This simple and affordable book packs the punch you need for dynamic success with your choir, ensemble and classroom! All ages.

If you're passionate about using interactive group games to help people interact, share and connect - and have no equipment whatsoever - this book is for you.Interactive group games and activities are one of the most powerful (and attractive) ways to help people connect. And research clearly shows that the most successful programs in the world are those which intentionally build trusting and healthy relationships.In this entertaining and simple how-to guide, Mark Collard distils 30+ years of experience to help you harness the power of group games to have fun and leave your group feeling engaged, valued and meaningfully connected to one another. All without props.This book will help you:Learn 150+ interactive group games & activities that people love, are universally appealing & require no props to play;Know the difference between an 'ice-breaker' and an 'ice-maker;'Understand why the latest research demands that we help our groups connect first before we deliver our content;Use five powerful tools to engage unwilling participants, create productive teams & exceed your group's expectations; andApply a simple four-step program design model that is guaranteed to invite your group to play, interact, trust & learn.Exclusive BonusesTo help you make all of this super-easy, No Props No Problem comes with four unique, value-added resources:QR code for every activity to access online video tutorials, leadership tips, variations & so much more;30-Days Free access to playmeo's ever-expanding activity database (premium subscribers already have immediate access);Free Group Games App to access everything in the palm of your hand; andForty Ready-to-Play Program Templates for 12 to 100+ people.This book makes no props, no problem, and will help you squeeze more than just fun out of your programs.Grab your copy of No Props No Problem today.Written by Mark Collard, 2018 (272 pages)

Bernard Reisman is in many ways the founding father of informal Jewish education as a full-fledged domain within the larger world of Jewish learning. His original volume, when it appeared in 1978, revolutionized much of Jewish educational practice for both youth and adults. Over the years, experiential education has proven itself to be a powerful tool not only for motivating, but for reaching generations of teenagers, young leaders, and veteran adult learners about Jewish issues, values, and their own identities. This new edition of Reisman's classic compendium of informal educational principles, guidelines, and activities enriches the storehouse of resources on which professional educators and lay program leaders can draw to address both timeless and timely concerns. For those for whom experiential and informal education are concepts whose importance is recognized but whose effective practice is not well understood, this book from the master will prove a highly valuable guide and companion.